World of Faces

Subtitle: Masks of the Northwest Coast Indians. The creation, use and meaning of the masks created by the native Americans of the Northwest Coast are brought to life by an author who knows and loves the art, craft and lore behind the masks. The reader will see the masks not in the cold light of a glass museum case, but as their people did--in the moving dramas and firelight of the long houses. Ed Malin is past chairman of the Humanities Department of the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and was formerly associate professor of Anthropology at Marylhurst College.